The last thing I would have expected today was 10 inches of snow. But that's MN for ya. People were bailing ship pretty fast at work, everyone rushing to work from home. I jumped on that band wagon quick and left at 2pm. Decided to skip my run and just come straight home. On the way home I saw 4 cars in the ditch, and one car directly behind me that spun out and almost turned completely around. He stayed on the road and no one behind him hit him, but for a split second I thought he was gonna side swipe my rear end.
My run yesterday started out very positive. Initially, no pain, felt pretty much like a normal run like I had hoped. 2 miles in, and my muscle just spasm'ed again and it felt the same as over the weekend. Sore, but I could run on it, so I finished out 6 more miles. Not recovered yet apparently. Maybe the forced day off today is a good thing.
Andrea's birthday is this weekend, I don't really know what we are doing yet. Maybe she's waiting for me to figure something out, but that probably won't happen. (Hint: Andrea, you should just plan something or tell me what you want to do!) She is going out with a friend tomorrow night, but other then that we have no plans this weekend. Might be a video gaming, running, generally sloth filled weekend.
Sarah: the song I posted recently is by "Over the Rhine", and its called "The Poopsmith Song". Here is an amazon link, you can find lots more from there:
The Poopsmith Song
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Phyiscal recovery, mental recovery
I'm running again, but it wasn't without some serious pain. Last week, I had to take the entire week off. I was able to manage some elliptical. It just hurt too much to run. (no, it wasn't my friends fault, he shouldn't feel bad). Not being able to run put me in a generally bad mood all last week.
This weekend I managed 8 miles on Saturday, with two short runs (5.25 and 6 miles) on Sunday/Monday. Saturday I popped a few Ibuprofen prior to the run, and I think that helped. But that was the only day I did that, the others I could manage. Tonight was a rest day and tomorrow I'm hoping is the real start of normal feeling runs. It will probably still pinch a little bit, but it doesn't feel anywhere near like it did last week. Lesson learned? No back lifting without serious care.
So the physical side is healing, but the funk that kicked in has yet to pass. I've been trying very hard to ignore the head lines these days, but it gets harder by the minute. The world at large just seems to suck, and you watch and listen as it sucks the soul out of the people you love and care about. At what point do you just throw your hands up and yell, "Fuck it!"
Fuck Circuit City and $4.7 million dollar executive bonuses for the "Wind Down Incentive and Retention Plan".
Fuck Merrill Lynch Executive Bonus Investigation
Fuck Cash4Gold and it's entire stupid scam.
Fuck the society that continues to convince people that they need to buy more shit, and a free market economy based on credit and money that doesn't really exist.
Fuck the government and it's screwing of hard working, honest people, due to the fuck tard mistakes of banks, people with bad credit, and idiots that buy things they can't afford.
Fuck a system that is going to make us all poorer, as inflation rises, our money becomes worthless, our retirements accounts zero out, and our social security money simply vanish.
Fuck my new mortage loan bank for trying to screw me out of $46.38 for a simple error they easily could have just handled or contacted me about.
Most of all, fuck me for being a poorly informed, non useful contributor to all the negativity out there. As if there isn't enough all ready.
This weekend I managed 8 miles on Saturday, with two short runs (5.25 and 6 miles) on Sunday/Monday. Saturday I popped a few Ibuprofen prior to the run, and I think that helped. But that was the only day I did that, the others I could manage. Tonight was a rest day and tomorrow I'm hoping is the real start of normal feeling runs. It will probably still pinch a little bit, but it doesn't feel anywhere near like it did last week. Lesson learned? No back lifting without serious care.
So the physical side is healing, but the funk that kicked in has yet to pass. I've been trying very hard to ignore the head lines these days, but it gets harder by the minute. The world at large just seems to suck, and you watch and listen as it sucks the soul out of the people you love and care about. At what point do you just throw your hands up and yell, "Fuck it!"
Fuck Circuit City and $4.7 million dollar executive bonuses for the "Wind Down Incentive and Retention Plan".
Fuck Merrill Lynch Executive Bonus Investigation
Fuck Cash4Gold and it's entire stupid scam.
Fuck the society that continues to convince people that they need to buy more shit, and a free market economy based on credit and money that doesn't really exist.
Fuck the government and it's screwing of hard working, honest people, due to the fuck tard mistakes of banks, people with bad credit, and idiots that buy things they can't afford.
Fuck a system that is going to make us all poorer, as inflation rises, our money becomes worthless, our retirements accounts zero out, and our social security money simply vanish.
Fuck my new mortage loan bank for trying to screw me out of $46.38 for a simple error they easily could have just handled or contacted me about.
Most of all, fuck me for being a poorly informed, non useful contributor to all the negativity out there. As if there isn't enough all ready.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Weakend
Saturday morning I attempted to do some weight lifting. I think I pulled a muscle in my lower back doing squats. Oops. It's not actually my back, it's that lower back upper butt muscle area. I didn't say anything to my friend who I was lifting with, but he'll read this and find out anyway. I'd say the odds of me continuing to do more lifting are about 50/50 right now. I lifted again today, only because running hurt too much. Sigh. I'm so weak, it's pathetic!
Saturday night we went to a dance. Not really sure what to think/say about that. I was uncomfortable and generally just tried to get through the two hours. I felt bad that I disliked it so much, because it's the kind of thing that Andrea enjoys. But what can you do? It's not easy to just flip a switch on your personality like that. Well, unless you have like 6 drinks first. But it wasn't that kind of dance.
Got Dungeons and Dragons coming up this weekend. Somewhat ready for it, but need to do some more thinking this week. If things go well, my players will be entering the 3rd chapter of my epic story. (5 chapters total). They will be level 4 starting this session, and I'm hoping this storyline takes them to level 10. If things go well, that might be towards the end of this year. That would be pretty damn impressive, and be the longest campaign to date.
My brother recorded parts of our last session with this fancy surround sound microphone he bought. Maybe I'll get some of the audio from him or get him to record our next session. Then post some highlights, and people can hear how dorky we get while playing. Wouldn't that be cool?
Saturday night we went to a dance. Not really sure what to think/say about that. I was uncomfortable and generally just tried to get through the two hours. I felt bad that I disliked it so much, because it's the kind of thing that Andrea enjoys. But what can you do? It's not easy to just flip a switch on your personality like that. Well, unless you have like 6 drinks first. But it wasn't that kind of dance.
Got Dungeons and Dragons coming up this weekend. Somewhat ready for it, but need to do some more thinking this week. If things go well, my players will be entering the 3rd chapter of my epic story. (5 chapters total). They will be level 4 starting this session, and I'm hoping this storyline takes them to level 10. If things go well, that might be towards the end of this year. That would be pretty damn impressive, and be the longest campaign to date.
My brother recorded parts of our last session with this fancy surround sound microphone he bought. Maybe I'll get some of the audio from him or get him to record our next session. Then post some highlights, and people can hear how dorky we get while playing. Wouldn't that be cool?
Saturday, February 14, 2009
V-day? D-day?
Just under the wire! So this week, I got sick again. I had maybe 3 days of feeling good and it hit me hard again. I think I was starting to get it over the New Ulm weekend, and then BAM. I don't know what I did to deserve this. Do I need to be more paranoid about germs at work? Do I need to carry a little bottle of hand sanitizer around with me?
Thursday this week, we had a "release party" for work. That is where they do something special for everyone that put in all the hard work to "release" the new version of software. It was a bowling party, at the exact same place we had one last year. Lack of creativity anyone? But hey, 2 hours bowling beats 2 hours at work right?
We were supposed to bowl one game normally, and then one game using the "Fun Rules". The rules were things like, bowl with your other hand. Bowl between your legs. Bowl sitting down. Spin twice during your approach. Step 7 times during your approach. Etc etc. This was all fine, but not something I wanted to do. I actually enjoy attempting to bowl.
So here is what I did. The lane next to us was completely empty because the entire team didn't show up. So I bowled "fun" frames in that lane, doing the silly crap they wanted us to do. And then bowled normally in my own lane. I did better my second game with a double strike and a bunch of spares. After it was over, I left right away.
Turns out while I was gone, I got a prize for "Highest Score in the Fun game." Which was based off my score from bowling normally... Who said cheaters never win?
Thursday this week, we had a "release party" for work. That is where they do something special for everyone that put in all the hard work to "release" the new version of software. It was a bowling party, at the exact same place we had one last year. Lack of creativity anyone? But hey, 2 hours bowling beats 2 hours at work right?
We were supposed to bowl one game normally, and then one game using the "Fun Rules". The rules were things like, bowl with your other hand. Bowl between your legs. Bowl sitting down. Spin twice during your approach. Step 7 times during your approach. Etc etc. This was all fine, but not something I wanted to do. I actually enjoy attempting to bowl.
So here is what I did. The lane next to us was completely empty because the entire team didn't show up. So I bowled "fun" frames in that lane, doing the silly crap they wanted us to do. And then bowled normally in my own lane. I did better my second game with a double strike and a bunch of spares. After it was over, I left right away.
Turns out while I was gone, I got a prize for "Highest Score in the Fun game." Which was based off my score from bowling normally... Who said cheaters never win?
Sunday, February 08, 2009
When, Not If
One post a week a dull blog doth make! I'll remedy it.. really I will. About as soon as I fix my bad eating habits too. Psshaa! Ya right!
This weekend was fun and relaxing. A nice drive down to New Ulm and visit with the in-laws. Megan was happy to have us disappear and spend the rest of weekend with Grandma and Papa B. Andrea and I just messed around downtown New Ulm, the hotel, and then dinner. Somewhere in between we watched some TV, the last half of "Balls of Fury", parts of Aliens vs. Predator, and did some reading. (I worked on D&D)
Dinner was at our usual spot: The Lamplighter. I would highly recommend this place to anyone who finds themselves visiting New Ulm. Is it the best quality food in the world? Probably not. But damn do they have the best waffle fries & fry sauce. All I ate last night were fries, fries, and more fries. I threw in some chicken fingers to round it off, but honestly, I could have just been satisfied with the fries.
I want to eat better, but I can't. For probably the last 6-8 months I've been wanting to "eat less junk, and only eat the things my body needs." Basically, stop eating things for pleasure. For the first 2 years of my changing habits, somehow, I found the will power to do exactly that. But somewhere along the way I lost that. I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out why, and it finally dawned on me: reason & consequence.
When I first started changing, there was a reason for eating different. That reason was to lose weight. So every time I was offered a cookie or had an opportunity to eat free candy, it was easy for my brain to go "eat that, and you'll undo all of today." Bam, done, easy decision. The decision was reinforced by the reason, due to the consequences of the action.
But now, with the fact that I don't need to lose weight, and with how much I run each night, eating badly doesn't really have much impact. Sure, if I eat REALLY badly a few days in a row I might see a few extra pounds on the scale, but then I just run it off and a few days later come back down. I bounce between 183-188 on the scale, and during extremes, 180-190. I.e. after a high mileage week, or after a high calorie weekend.
The reason to eat right is gone, replaced with simply the fact that, "It's better to eat healthy." And the consequences are gone, replaced with the fact that I run off most excess calories. So I guess the search for motivation to change eating habits will continue...
This weekend was fun and relaxing. A nice drive down to New Ulm and visit with the in-laws. Megan was happy to have us disappear and spend the rest of weekend with Grandma and Papa B. Andrea and I just messed around downtown New Ulm, the hotel, and then dinner. Somewhere in between we watched some TV, the last half of "Balls of Fury", parts of Aliens vs. Predator, and did some reading. (I worked on D&D)
Dinner was at our usual spot: The Lamplighter. I would highly recommend this place to anyone who finds themselves visiting New Ulm. Is it the best quality food in the world? Probably not. But damn do they have the best waffle fries & fry sauce. All I ate last night were fries, fries, and more fries. I threw in some chicken fingers to round it off, but honestly, I could have just been satisfied with the fries.
I want to eat better, but I can't. For probably the last 6-8 months I've been wanting to "eat less junk, and only eat the things my body needs." Basically, stop eating things for pleasure. For the first 2 years of my changing habits, somehow, I found the will power to do exactly that. But somewhere along the way I lost that. I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out why, and it finally dawned on me: reason & consequence.
When I first started changing, there was a reason for eating different. That reason was to lose weight. So every time I was offered a cookie or had an opportunity to eat free candy, it was easy for my brain to go "eat that, and you'll undo all of today." Bam, done, easy decision. The decision was reinforced by the reason, due to the consequences of the action.
But now, with the fact that I don't need to lose weight, and with how much I run each night, eating badly doesn't really have much impact. Sure, if I eat REALLY badly a few days in a row I might see a few extra pounds on the scale, but then I just run it off and a few days later come back down. I bounce between 183-188 on the scale, and during extremes, 180-190. I.e. after a high mileage week, or after a high calorie weekend.
The reason to eat right is gone, replaced with simply the fact that, "It's better to eat healthy." And the consequences are gone, replaced with the fact that I run off most excess calories. So I guess the search for motivation to change eating habits will continue...
Sunday, February 01, 2009
Super Bowl
About 20 minutes before we head over to my brothers house to watch the super bowl. I've hardly followed any football this year, or any sports for that matter. Watching sports has never been on my top 10 list of things to do, but it is fun watching with other people who do really get into it. Today is a prime example, I didn't even know who the second team playing was (Steelers), and mainly it's just an excuse to spend a few hours with my brother.
Last night Grandma Gayle babysat Megan while Andrea and I had dinner and saw a movie. We went with "Taken" which was enjoyable. I'd give it a 6 out of 10. The worst part of the movie was the previews - Non stop horrible movies coming out, this year might be a dry spell. Thankfully there are a few good ones...
Next weekend Andrea and I are going to head to New Ulm for an overnight, again with free babysitting for Megan. Trying to get as much in before the new baby arrives, and Andrea wanted to take a few days before she's 8 months pregnant and can't enjoy things like that. I still can't believe she went to Ren Fest with me, sitting on hard benches all day, while 8 months pregnant. Was I just that clueless?
Anyway, time to cut this short. As always, I think I need to make more time for my blog. Maybe... but I've said that a thousand times before.
Last night Grandma Gayle babysat Megan while Andrea and I had dinner and saw a movie. We went with "Taken" which was enjoyable. I'd give it a 6 out of 10. The worst part of the movie was the previews - Non stop horrible movies coming out, this year might be a dry spell. Thankfully there are a few good ones...
Next weekend Andrea and I are going to head to New Ulm for an overnight, again with free babysitting for Megan. Trying to get as much in before the new baby arrives, and Andrea wanted to take a few days before she's 8 months pregnant and can't enjoy things like that. I still can't believe she went to Ren Fest with me, sitting on hard benches all day, while 8 months pregnant. Was I just that clueless?
Anyway, time to cut this short. As always, I think I need to make more time for my blog. Maybe... but I've said that a thousand times before.
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